Would like to use DevilutionX to create a very simple mod, can anyone point me in the right direction? #8180
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Hello friends. I'm hoping to use this Repo to create a very simple modification of DIablo 1 to play with my friends. Basically, we want to rig the game up as a 'straight-shot' roguelike, where the intention is just to play through the full game 1 time with 0 grinding (and restart if any one dies.) To make this possible, I want to start with a list of very simple modifications to vanilla behavior which are...
That's really it. I looked through this repo for a bit... but I wasn't quite sure where to start. Can anyone point me in the right direction? |
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Download the 1.6.0 beta Look at the table data folder: https://github.com/diasurgical/DevilutionX/tree/master/assets/txtdata Double the Item drop rate: Edit the items.tsv pack them in an mpq with your mod name, share it with your friends and have them all put it in You can use Google Sheets or any other spread sheet software to edit .tsv files, or notepad if you feel sadistic |
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OMG thank you so much. This is awesome. |
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Alright I think I have the mpq set up. It's extremely simple for now; just a change to the 'Experience.tsv' file for now. (Just trying to see if I can get this working. Here's what my MPQ looks like; 
So now I just need to figure out how to actually launch Diablo 1 with this updated information affecting the experience gain rate. You said I need to put it in the /save folder/mods and enable it through the mods menu? I located the save folder at... Capew/appdata/roaming/diasurgical/devilution/Mods and placed 'D1 Rogue.mpq' into that directory. However, I can't figure out how to enable it from within Devilution. I don't see any options in the option menu to enable my mod... I seem to be stuck here on the very last step. I have no idea how to launch the game with my changes. Any help is much appreciated. |
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You have to click on the newest build and be logged in to GitHub to download the "artifact". |
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It's because a beta isn't a release :) It's not finished so may have bugs and it's structures may change so a mod made for the beta isn't guarantied to work with the final release or future updates. |
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Got it. Alright I downloadede the artifact and ran everything on the latest test build (this one; https://github.com/diasurgical/devilutionX/actions/workflows/Windows_MinGW_x64.yml?query=branch%3Amaster) but I still don't see a mod menu... where is it supposed to be? Maybe it's not appearing because I didn't set up the MPQ right, or put it in the right place? |
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under settings, check what version your running |
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You were right, I used a different testing version and finally got it working, and it worked! I was bale to load my mod with half XP costs to level up. Thanks for humoring me, this is really fun! |
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By design, it already is. Players just have the option to grind and replay, but it's not necessary. However, don't let this discourage you from modding it! |
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Really? It seems almost impossible to play through the game rogue-like style with vanilla rules... Are you guys sure that's a thing? My friends and I tried to do it years ago but past like Catacombs 3-4 it seemed pretty much impossible to survive... |
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Yes really. Do fully clean each floor, put most points in dex, unless you're mage. |
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@SpicyMelonCrab I would even go as far as to suggest you try running it that way under default settings for a few times before you dial everything down like what you were proposing. Ironman runs are a LOT of fun in my experience, especially with more people playing together. Your suggested edits would make the game trivially easy IMHO. Up to you, of course. |
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probably still would be cool to have a mod to add some more flavor |
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Who knows, maybe we'll end up dialling UP the difficulty. I'm glad I know how to mod the game now, at least. Thanks for the help everybody! |
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Alright, I finally got this working! Now I am trying to figure out how to edit item drop rates. I looked through the monsterdat.tsv and also the items.tsv, and I couldn't find an obvious way to increase the overall item drop rate or the quality level of the 'average' item drop. Is there a guide anywhere on what the columns in each of the .tsv files specifically do? Or does anyone know what specific things would need to be changed to alter those factors? |
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Decrease the item quality instead, that way it works the same as if you had increased the average quality of drops. If you want more loot to drop per kill I don't think that's exposed yet, you can only change the likelihood of what items drop |
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One last hurdle... I can't figure out how to get hellfire launching on 1.6... It worked fine for me on earlier versions... but now if I enable Hellfire, I can't get hellfire to actually launch. Game launches to the hellfire launch screen but the game is definitely still vanilla (no monk, etc...) I put the hellfire mpqs in both my mods directory and inside my main directory, because I wasn't sure where they go now... but hellfire doesn't seem to launch either way; but even with hellfire enabled, in the 'mods' menu... it won't launch... what am I doing wrong this time, hehe? 
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Currently the hellfire mod files aren't being bundled, you can download them manually |
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I think i'll just wait for the release of 1.6 proper. I tried several methods of doing that and I couldn't get it to work. |
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Here you go, extract it and place it in |
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Oh, thank you Ajenbo! |
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Download the 1.6.0 beta
Look at the table data folder: https://github.com/diasurgical/DevilutionX/tree/master/assets/txtdata
Double the Item drop rate: Edit the items.tsv
Slightly increase item drop quality.: Edit the items.tsv
Double Experience Gain: edit monsters.tsv
Double Gold Gain: Not sure but maybe edit monsters.tsv
Increase the number of identify scrolls that drop a significant amount.: Edit the items.tsv
Increase the number of potions that drop a significant amount.: Edit the items.tsv
pack them in an mpq with your mod name, share it with your friends and have them all put it in
<save folder>/mods/and then enable it from the mods menu.You can use Google Sheets or any other spre…